by Downtown Magazine | Sep 27, 2016 | Events, Featured, Lifestyle, Music
When Andrew W.K. put out his first album for Island Records in 2001, a lot of people were confused. After all, I Get Wet featured a unique hybrid of heavy metal guitars, chant-along stadium-style choruses, dance music electronics, and Tony Robbins-style positivity....
by Downtown Magazine | Sep 23, 2016 | Music
Having formed from the roots of the band Shell Shock, Crowbar debuted in 1991 with the album Obedience Thru Suffering. The New Orleans band’s 1993 self-titled album was produced by Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo and two of its videos achieved airplay via Beavis...
by Downtown Magazine | Sep 20, 2016 | Culture, Events, Music
Several years after forming in 1995, the band known as Buckcherry hit it big with its self-titled album. Hits like “Lit Up,” “For The Movies,” “Dead Again” and “Check Your Head” were big on rock radio in 1999 and 2000....
by Downtown Magazine | Sep 14, 2016 | Culture, Featured, Movies
A lot of people first noticed actor Chad L. Coleman when he portrayed Dennis “Cutty” wise on the Emmy Award-winning HBO series The Wire. But Chad was acting long before The Wire, having appeared on multiple episodes of Law & Order, New York Undercover...
by Rachel Veroff | Sep 13, 2016 | Culture, Entertainment, Events, Music
On a balmy evening in late summer, a fine-looking crowd of New York’s theater elite and Broadway veterans gathered at a spacious loft in Williamsburg. The loft is the live-work space of Leah Siegel, singer/songwriter and darling of the Brooklyn indie music...
